Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel, "Ulverton," was published in 1992. He has written four other novels--most recently, "No Telling"--a collection of stories, and four books of poetry. He lives in France with his wife and three children.

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Kirkus Reviews

and as fields are purchased for a ritzy subdivision by a local developer at the height of the 1980's economic boom, the skeleton of Cromwell's soldier comes to light, casting a pall over the project that keeps home-buyers away.

London Review of Books

We have been dogged, perhaps, by an assumption that English history and the English landscape do not in themselves offer a broad enough canvas (rather in the way that whole generations of film critics have allowed themselves to be persuaded, on the basis of Truffaut’s throwaway remark about the u...